Internet Ladder, a self-hosted alternative to paywall-hopping sites Rob Beschizza

web theory Mozilla pulls a popular paywall circumvention tool from Firefox add-ons store Cory Doctorow

Science New Scientist calls for the end of the scholarly publishing industry: "more profitable than oil," "indefensible" Cory Doctorow

Business MIT Sloan Management Review suspends its paywall for two days Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Why For-Profit Academic Publishers Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank Jason Schmitt

Science 65 out of the top 100 most-cited scientific papers are behind a paywall, with a weighted average cost of $32.33/each Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Every judicial decision has been liberated from the US court system's paywall Cory Doctorow

books Sci-Hub and Libgen descend from a Soviet tradition of smuggled science Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Security researcher tears apart White House app and finds a tracking and security nightmare Jason Weisberger

Boing Boing Gadgets Dead Wi-Fi won't kill your workflow with this $30 Microsoft Office Boing Boing's Shop

money Honda paywalls its garage door opener Jason Weisberger

gadgets FTC urged to stop companies paywalling hardware you already bought Rob Beschizza

deepfakes Deepfake-assisted Keanu Reeves impersonator makes waves on YouTube Grant St. Clair

News You Can Use Arizona Mirror provides independent news and critical political analysis Jennifer Sandlin

streaming services What caused Quibi to die? Devin Nealy

Science Sci-Hub, the "pirate bay of science," undergoes expansion Annie Rauwerda